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News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal, Great Britain, 2000-2012


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    • Hackgate, Great Britain, 2000-2012
    • News International Phone Hacking Scandal, Great Britain, 2000-2012
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    • found: Work cat: 2014013578: Hack attack, 2014:CIP data view (News of the World phone-hacking scandal) table of contents (2008-2011)
    • found: Wikipeda, April 14, 2014:(The News International phone-hacking scandal -- dubbed "Hackgate", "Rupertgate", or "Murdochgate" by the press -- is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of the then-News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of publishing stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007; redirected from News of the World phone hacking scandal)
    • found: CNN World WWW site, April 24, 2014:Timeline of UK phone hacking scandal, article published Nov. 19, 2012 (Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers hacked into the phones of politicians, celebrities and unwitting people caught up in the news -- including child murder victims -- have severely bruised his media empire. The scandal forced the closure of Britain's top-selling paper, the News of the World, resulted in the withdrawal of his bid for the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, and led to criminal charges being laid against former senior News International figures, including his trusted UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks. Timeline: begins Nov. 2005 when News of the World prints a story about Britain's Prince William injuring his knee, prompting royal officials to complain to police about probable voicemail hacking; last date listed: Nov. 4, 2012)
    • found: The Telegraph WWW site, April 24, 2014:Phone hacking: timeline of the scandal, article published July 23, 2012 (First date listed: 2000, Rebekah Brooks is appointed editor of the News of the World; final date listed: Nov. 28, 2012, Half a dozen copies of the Leveson Report are given to David Cameron 24 hours before it is published; First "key event" listed: July 2009, News of the World reporters first accused of hacking phones: It emerges that News of the World reporters, with the knowledge of senior staff, illegally accessed messages from the mobile phones of celebrities and politicians while Coulson was editor from 2003 to 2007)
    • found: BBC news WWW site, April 24, 2014:Phone-hacking scandal, undated (first date listed: 2000, Rebekah Brooks (Wade, as she was then) is appointed editor of the News of the World. Gains a profile for her controversial "Sarah's law" campaign in which the paper began naming sex offenders. During her three years as editor, it's alleged that NoW reporters hacked the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and the parents of the Soham murder victims. She moves to the Sun in 2003. Final date listed: 30 Aug. 2012, News International's former legal adviser Tom Crone is arrested at his home in south-west London by police investigating phone hacking)
    • found: Google, April 24, 2014:("News International phone hacking scandal:" 291,000 hits; "News of the World phone hacking scandal:" 680,000 hits; Rupertgate: 3,940 hits; Murdochgate: 7,760 hits; Hackgate: 60,900 hits)
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    • 2014-04-14: new
    • 2014-07-14: revised
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